Currency News

The first IACA Excellence in Currency Awards werepresented on May 8, 2007 at the Currency Conference in
Bangkok by Richard Haycock, chairman of IACA (the
International Association of Currency Affairs).

The awards, which are sponsored by Currency News, have
been introduced to promote and recognize excellence
in currency production processing, management and
distribution and are open to any organization or individual
products and systems of the currency industry, as well
as issuing authorities, commercial banks and enforcement
agencies.______________________________________________________________________________
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Winner: Tom Ferguson, former Director of the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing
BEST NEW BANKNOTE
Winner: National Bank of Kazakhstan for the 10,000 Tenge
Runners up: Central Bank of Sweden for the 1,000 Kronor Bank of Mexico for the 50 Peso
BEST NEW COIN
Winner: Royal Canadian Mint for the 25 cent
Runners up: Reserve Bank of New Zealand for its Silver Coin project
Royal Mint (UK) for the Brunel £2 coin
BEST NEW CURRENCY FEATURE
Winner: Crane & Co for Motion
Runners up: Securency for G-Switch
Louisenthal for varifeye
BEST NEW CURRENCY PROCESS OR SYSTEM
Winner: KBA GIORI for its ONE suite of digital pre-press products
Runners-up: OeBS and Jura for Direct Laser Engraving
Dollor Sales Pursching and Todays Rates Giesecke & Devrient for OBIS 3
BEST PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
Winner: US Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the Color of Money campaign
Runners up: Reserve Bank of New Zealand for the Silver Coin project AND Eureka Metro for World Polymer Banknotes
BEST CURRENCY WEBSITE
Winner: Bank of England
Runners up: Central Bank of Russia
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